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Just a sip out of the Jack Daniels bottle in which Peg kept his hot as ice and clear as crystal brew was enough to feel a hell of a jolt, but Daniel had to go and pour the whole thing into his beer and Gay came back and, taking off her denims, climbed into the tub and suddenly it was right. Shooting stars peeled off the cob of the Milky Way, iridescent silk whipped off the rich black and yellow health of night, plunging into the darkness of the valley where a pair of headlights twined down the pass...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, at Pegleg Mac's | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

...concession area was set up to handle the different crowd also. Instead of Fenway Park's beer and peanuts or the Garden's pizza and brew, the offerings in the stands included hot dogs, for sure, but also chilled wine served from decanters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navratilova Wins Women's Tennis Title | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment." That caricature of the desiccated plant-eater still pervades the English-speaking world. The very language is meaty with bias. Imagine a Beaneater martini, a fatted kale, a yam actor, a string of Turnip 'n' Brew restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Thoughts | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...Sunday, and we have been with the miner and his family all week long, and longer. The book began with Dan Sizemore defending his two packs of cigarettes a day ("no reason to fear that coal dust") and it is ending with a few too many shorts of home brew. They are arguing furiously about baseball. Vecsey is trying to convince Dan Sizemore that Oakland ball players have more strikes against them than Cincinnati players (the Reds are the mountain team), more of an inferiority complex about their city. Dan Sizemore won't listen. "You don't understand what...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Moonshine and Marx | 2/19/1975 | See Source »

...business, big operators are holding their own. The "revenoo" recently seized 1,146 gallons of 'shine (worth up to $8,000 untaxed) in Dawsonville, Ga.-their biggest local haul in four years. However, connoisseurs of corn complain that mass-production methods result in a relatively tasteless brew (which also tends to lack the dead rats and flies that spiced old-time likker). White lightning may yet find its uses. Once, when an agent cleaned off his fingerprinting machine with some confiscated corn, he found that it dissolved ink much faster than commercial solvents. Lightning fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Southern Discomfort | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

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